I have the impression a thread has disappeared where someone had a
small problem with an unexpected T_STRING. The mistake he had made
was only because of the inversion of his php tags ("<?php" and "?>")
As I regularly encounter error messages about unexpected T_STRING I
asked for a definition of this last one hoping the solving will ever
lead to a better feeling for programming in php.
OK, I admitted already my web building is just a kind of a hobby, but
this could change in future as since a couple of days I got my second
task.
In case you wonder if I have a php site myself, I confirm that I have
one indeed, but just give me some time to check it out myself since
the last upload.
Still hesitating ing me? Among others I have Google adsense on
that site. Would it be spamming too if I put the link here online?
If yes I can still use my other account to install joomla and when I'm
ready we can still see. Our work bourse online also has a joomla
course, do you know that?

T_String is like Syntax Error in BASIC, it can mean lots of things,
but in general PHP has a problem parsing a line because it was not
expecting a string to pop up out of nowhere.

To debug you just need to find the line and start looking through it.
Could be a bad use of quotes or a mis-typed command, no semicolon, or
something along those lines.

If you are going to make this a job you will get these, so get used to
debugging. :-)

A big is having a text editor with line numbers (andf
highlighting) and formatting your code (indenting) to make it easy to
follow.

BTW a better group for PHP programming oriented questions is
comp.lang.php

I dunno about your last question sounds unrelated to PHP to me.

Good luck!